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the puerto rican voters in new jersey, new york, connecticut, massachusetts are among the most liberal democratic voters there are. they voted for obama 80, 90%. they were with the most vocal democratic constituency of host to the war in iraq in 2003. they are just -- they are a very distinctive part of our political landscape. they are not krin to change. latino democrats and california it's just really hard to see where you get to republicans that hope to get more than 25 or 30% of that big chunk. in the rio grande from the in texas and in chicago in its suburbs. i think in cuba of the new dynamic has started opening travel to cuba has totally changed the game for the way the cubans think about it. so if you are talking about large chunks of this electorate that are solidly democratic and there's a solid base for so it has been and will continue to be about eight fairly small margin in the key places. >> i will duties as quickly as i can. i am still wondering what happened in november 2012. it's been a a two word answer to your question, joe biden which is a segue over to your questi
the puerto rican voters in new jersey, new york, connecticut, massachusetts are among the most liberal democratic voters there are. they voted for obama 80, 90%. they were with the most vocal democratic constituency of host to the war in iraq in 2003. they are just -- they are a very distinctive part of our political landscape. they are not krin to change. latino democrats and california it's just really hard to see where you get to republicans that hope to get more than 25 or 30% of that big...
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gov new york city i will always call you governor. it may be more appropriate some day, but it's an honor to have you on this show. i just happened to hilt you up with a hardball question. peter freeman said you sat at his table, not too long ago, his breakfast table. and you said i am a ronald reagan republican. were you then -- are you now so changed that that's not true? >> i think the party has changed is what's really happened. i think regan is a great kparm. my friend, jeb bush, said not long ago, that ronald reagan would probably not be successful in today's republican party. that tells you everything you need to know. and i think it's the leadership of the party more than the membership. what's happened on issue after issue, and you know this better than i do. whether it's immigration, education, voter suppression, what the leadership has done is, say on immigration, we want deportation. when it talks about education, it's talking about not funding it anymore. when they talk about voter suppression, they deny people the right
gov new york city i will always call you governor. it may be more appropriate some day, but it's an honor to have you on this show. i just happened to hilt you up with a hardball question. peter freeman said you sat at his table, not too long ago, his breakfast table. and you said i am a ronald reagan republican. were you then -- are you now so changed that that's not true? >> i think the party has changed is what's really happened. i think regan is a great kparm. my friend, jeb bush,...
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he is "new york" magazine writer at large. mr. rich, it's great to have you here. >> great to be here as always. >> in part, i enjoy these stories because it is fun to figure out ways that people have managed to do politics in a way that works out to be a great business for themselves. >> free market principles. the market all goes, accrues to them. >> i sort of wonder about that. should it be okay at freedomworks that you scam people out of their money, thinking it's for the campaign and it really just gets spent on something that you're going to profit from? should that be okay? because they're sort of randian economic anarchists, and if you can scam people out of their money, you deserve their money than they do? >> it is consistent with randian principles, i think. take a look back at ralph reed and pat robertson. it was all about generating this list, figuring out ways to sell them to others, using them to raise money on "the 700 club," trying to sell products, some of seemingly dubious value, and it's -- so i guess at least
he is "new york" magazine writer at large. mr. rich, it's great to have you here. >> great to be here as always. >> in part, i enjoy these stories because it is fun to figure out ways that people have managed to do politics in a way that works out to be a great business for themselves. >> free market principles. the market all goes, accrues to them. >> i sort of wonder about that. should it be okay at freedomworks that you scam people out of their money,...
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york times article back in two thousand and seven explaining how her seven years on the wal-mart board of directors continue to play a part in her life quote mrs clinton maintains close ties to wal-mart executives to the democratic party and the tightly knit arkansas business community her husband former president bill clinton speaks frequently to wal-mart's current chief executive at least scott jr it's not just their board of directors wal-mart is also a founding member of an organization called business forward which is dedicated. quote helping bring more business leaders into the policymaking process but do we really need more business leaders in the policymaking process to discuss this i'm joined now by rachel kurz yes she is a producer here at r.t. nice to theory time to so tell us more about what this is business forward sure so luckily enough business forwards pretty president c.e.o. named jim doyle actually went on c.-span washington journal this morning to explain a little bit more about how business ford works and i was hoping we could take a look at his explanation of what
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no early voting in new jersey and new york, the states hardest hit so you had the week before, in other states you might have -- in north carolina significant number of the electorate already voted. so in both states ex-if if you cast a provisional ballot, it doesn't count at all. fortunately the state at the last minute had executive orders that opened that up. but how much education they were able get to out when people were just trying to unbury their lives and didn't have electricity and power. so allowing people who cast provisional ballots would have provided more flexibility, understanding ahead of time so people knew they could have gone to another precinct and voted and haste count. we want people to have their ballots counted but it wasn't able to get back to that location, so look at ways to expand the ability of people to vote and other options. expanding the way you vote permanently and looking how you inform people about the polling locations and ways -- text-messaging, or other -- that clearly broke down. >> for me, the problem with the electoral college. my job is to get
no early voting in new jersey and new york, the states hardest hit so you had the week before, in other states you might have -- in north carolina significant number of the electorate already voted. so in both states ex-if if you cast a provisional ballot, it doesn't count at all. fortunately the state at the last minute had executive orders that opened that up. but how much education they were able get to out when people were just trying to unbury their lives and didn't have electricity and...
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have apparently come to an end the new york hotel maid that accused a frenchman up sexual assault has withdrawn her civil lawsuit for an undisclosed it's remeasure amount to up to six million u.s. dollars the scandal casseroles can have position at the top of the international monetary fund and stifled his presidential ambitions at home he can still face other charges of being behind that alleged prostitution ring in fronts. the prime minister of mali has resigned in a state t.v. broadcasts just hours after his arrest late on monday. diarra was detained by members of the citizens' groups backed by the country's military he was pushing a un back resolution for international military intervention to help regain control of mali's north al-qaeda linked militants took control of the area during a march. on the way our regular financial check up from washington lauren lyster. looters that takes your breath away a few tourists travel to these paul it's no prepackaged confort but they joy is a while these guaranteed guinea's a zoology professor he works in the u.s. and travels to these remote
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before that you had to go to fancy, highly capitalized studios in new york or l.a. or chicago. to record. so now the artist you are talking about are able to take advantage to communicate with these new technologies. on the education, can i say, i'm an old-fashioned guy. i still want those kids to come to a seminar on a campus for a while. i do. very much. but i'm also teaching a course next year and i'm trying to figure out how to get my 15-minute chunks looking at a camera and how to integrate that with the courses i teach students at penn. we are early days of this. nobody thinks -- >> a question there. >> carol thompson from strategic consulting. i have a question for each of the three panelists. we have been talking about innovation, education, and we have been talking what we are hoping for the future. i would like to ask you about the future. what are your greatest fears and your greatest hopes for 2016 and, 2020? it's a small question. >> i'm presume you don't think the world is going to end december 21st. . >> you are in a whole different compass its here, alan. >> wha
before that you had to go to fancy, highly capitalized studios in new york or l.a. or chicago. to record. so now the artist you are talking about are able to take advantage to communicate with these new technologies. on the education, can i say, i'm an old-fashioned guy. i still want those kids to come to a seminar on a campus for a while. i do. very much. but i'm also teaching a course next year and i'm trying to figure out how to get my 15-minute chunks looking at a camera and how to...
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auto workers union and ryan johnson parole and probation officer for the state of michigan and from new york josh eidelson labor journalist and contributing writer to the nation salon and in these times well welcome to you all thank you thanks thanks so much for joining us and josh is in where i mean princeton new jersey i'm sorry if i so they're wrong cindy i want to i want to read you i want to start by reading you a quote from martin luther king in one thousand nine hundred sixty one he said in our glorious fight for civil rights we must guard against being fooled by false slogans such as right to work it is a law to rob us of our civil rights and job rights its purpose is to destroy labor unions in the freedom of collective bargaining by which unions have improved wages and work are going to sions forever wherever for everyone wherever these laws have been passed wages are lower job opportunities are fewer and there are no civil rights end of quote how is it that fifty years i was one hundred sixty one fifty years later we're still fighting this fight and now fighting it in michigan
auto workers union and ryan johnson parole and probation officer for the state of michigan and from new york josh eidelson labor journalist and contributing writer to the nation salon and in these times well welcome to you all thank you thanks thanks so much for joining us and josh is in where i mean princeton new jersey i'm sorry if i so they're wrong cindy i want to i want to read you i want to start by reading you a quote from martin luther king in one thousand nine hundred sixty one he said...
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york times article back in two thousand and seven explaining our seven years on the wal-mart board of directors continued to play a part in her life quote mrs clinton maintains close ties to wal-mart executives to the democratic party and the tightly knit arkansas business community her husband former president bill clinton speaks frequently to wal-mart's current chief executive h. least jr and it's not just their board of directors momart is also a founding member of an organization called business forward which is dedicated to quote help bring more business leaders into the policy making process but do we really need more business leaders in the policymaking process to discuss this i'm joined now by rachel curteous a producer here at r t so rachel can you tell us more about this organization move forward sure so business forward is essentially an organization designed to make sure that business leaders get the chance to speak to high level government officials and luckily for us jim doyle the president and founder of business forward was on c.-span this morning so i thought it might
york times article back in two thousand and seven explaining our seven years on the wal-mart board of directors continued to play a part in her life quote mrs clinton maintains close ties to wal-mart executives to the democratic party and the tightly knit arkansas business community her husband former president bill clinton speaks frequently to wal-mart's current chief executive h. least jr and it's not just their board of directors momart is also a founding member of an organization called...
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an artist was arrested for putting up posters critical of drone usage all over new york city the poster show a menacing drone shooting a missile at innocent children with the words drones protection when you least expect it written at the bottom these posters definitely reflect a lot of american fears that a big brother skynet will completely eliminate the very concept of privacy and free speech so to prove that americans live in a free country without any government spying the n.y.p.d. hunted down the anonymous artist and arrested him for expressing himself having arrested him at his residence they charged him with fifty six counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument grand larceny possession of stolen property and weapons possession for having a deadly terrorist weapon and unloaded twenty two caliber pistol although being in jail won't be pleasant perhaps arzt as some actually in the end got what he wanted he proved to the world that big brother surveilled him and arrested him all for throwing up a few posters looks like he proved his point but that's just my opinion. mission
an artist was arrested for putting up posters critical of drone usage all over new york city the poster show a menacing drone shooting a missile at innocent children with the words drones protection when you least expect it written at the bottom these posters definitely reflect a lot of american fears that a big brother skynet will completely eliminate the very concept of privacy and free speech so to prove that americans live in a free country without any government spying the n.y.p.d. hunted...
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phil lebeau in new york. willy walsh making a bet with richard branson that the virgin airlines brand will not be around in five years. branson offered to bet 1 million pounds, walsh reportedly said, i don't have a million pounds. a knee in the groin maybe. that's as painful to him as it might be to me. why can't our executives be that creative. >> that's so colorful. >> a ceo challenging another one like that in this country? >> it would be rare. >> it's rare. usually they control the company. that is typically -- they have large shareholders, they're never going to say something like that. >> they don't often mention body parts. >> only a guy could really appreciate that story. >>> cramer's live in washington. six stocks in 60 seconds. >>> if lawmakers do not agree on a budget by january 1st, 2013, the expiration of the 2001, 2003 and 2009 tax cuts will generate $225 billion in revenue for the federal government. try running four.ning a restaurant is hard, fortunately we've got ink. it gives us 5x the rewar
phil lebeau in new york. willy walsh making a bet with richard branson that the virgin airlines brand will not be around in five years. branson offered to bet 1 million pounds, walsh reportedly said, i don't have a million pounds. a knee in the groin maybe. that's as painful to him as it might be to me. why can't our executives be that creative. >> that's so colorful. >> a ceo challenging another one like that in this country? >> it would be rare. >> it's rare. usually...
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apparently come to an end the new york hotel maid at a friend's wedding of sexual assault has withdrawn her civil north undisclosed from its remit to amount you up to six million u.s. dollars scandal cost ross can his position at the top of the international monetary fund and stifled his presidential ambitions at home he could still face other charges of being behind an alleged prostitution ring in. the proceedings of the vision. the prime minister of mali has resigned in a state t.v. boycotts just hours after his arrest late on monday shaking libido de oro was detained by members of a citizens group backed by the country's military was promoting a un backed resolution for international military intervention to help me gain control of mali's north al-qaeda linked militants took control of the area during a march. deny the chance of a baby a decades long program of forced sterilization in america left tens of thousands of women unable to have children once promoted as a way to build a healthy nation it's only recently the traumatized victims of a usually takes program that are being cons
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p in long island city, new york, independent. -- pete. caller: my opinion is, i believe the president actually wants to go off the cliff. i really do. i think he really wants to tax the rich no matter if the derickson pour or not and before we cut any social programs in this country we should stop giving aid to countries that hate us. -- he wants to tax the original matter if it hurts the poor. guest: senator patty murray says going off the cliff might be preferable to signing a bad deal. i think president obama felt a little burned from the 2011 budget talks with john boehner, so he is driving a harder line, having won reelection. the idea of letting the tax rate on the top 2% go up is not really a surprise. i think everybody agrees that he campaigned on that. there are millions of people who voted for him that are expecting that to happen. host: the style section of the washington post has a piece about the director of legislative affairs at the white house, rob neighbors. what is his job? guest: behind closed doors, the staff members h
p in long island city, new york, independent. -- pete. caller: my opinion is, i believe the president actually wants to go off the cliff. i really do. i think he really wants to tax the rich no matter if the derickson pour or not and before we cut any social programs in this country we should stop giving aid to countries that hate us. -- he wants to tax the original matter if it hurts the poor. guest: senator patty murray says going off the cliff might be preferable to signing a bad deal. i...
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light on a private jewish sect in new york city. in that time there've been some good days. and some difficult ones. but, through it all, we've persevered, supporting some of the biggest ideas in modern history. so why should our anniversary matter to you? because for 200 years, we've been helping ideas move from ambition to achievement. and the next great idea could be yours. ♪ share "not even close." share "you owe me..." share "just right." the share everything plan. sharable data across 10 devices with unlimited talk and text. get a droid razr m by motorola for $49.99. >>> private leader in jewish ultraorthodox community has been convicted of dozen of child sex abuse counts. >> this could be a turning point for a private group of people. mary snow has been looking into this and joining us now from new york. it's such a sad story. what are you learning? >> some are saying they never thought they would see a case like this even go to trial. now brooklyn district attorney had come under scrutiny with questions raised about whethe
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rain is moving into "new york times" on the turnpike into southern new england. we have light rain this morning. it will exit this afternoon. i promise to everyone in new england and the atlantic for the first time since thursday of last week we will see sunshine this afternoon. temperature staying steady in the big city. already a cold morning in buffalo and pittsburgh. this afternoon, not bad. it will be a nice wednesday afternoon. i toeldld you we had the lowest amount of snow covering the u.s. >> now covers 32% of the country and all of the northern plains and northern rockies and central rockies, the one area of the country still snow starved, new england in the mid-atlantic usually where we have snow by this time of the year. i don't see any coming any time soon. windchill, bundle up through the middle of the country. all the way down to 34, even in san antonio. florida is the warm spot on the map along with los angeles. hit and miss showers and thunderstorms in florida but nothing like the tornadoes you saw yesterday. east coast, we dry up and in the midwe
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p in long island city, new york, independent. -- pete. caller: my opinion is, i believe the president actually wants to go off the cliff. i really do. i think he really wants to tax the rich no matter if the derickson pour or not and before we cut any social programs in this country we should stop giving aid to countries that hate us. -- he wants to tax the original matter if it hurts the poor. guest: senator patty murray says going off the cliff might be preferable to signing a bad deal. i think president obama felt a little burned from the 2011 budget talks with john boehner, so he is driving a harder line, having won reelection. the idea of letting the tax rate on the top 2% go up is not really a surprise. i think everybody agrees that he campaigned on that. there are millions of people who voted for him that are expecting that to happen. host: the style section of the washington post has a piece about the director of legislative affairs at the white house, rob neighbors. what is his job? guest: behind closed doors, the staff members h
p in long island city, new york, independent. -- pete. caller: my opinion is, i believe the president actually wants to go off the cliff. i really do. i think he really wants to tax the rich no matter if the derickson pour or not and before we cut any social programs in this country we should stop giving aid to countries that hate us. -- he wants to tax the original matter if it hurts the poor. guest: senator patty murray says going off the cliff might be preferable to signing a bad deal. i...
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joining me now new york university constitutional law professor kenji oshini and reporter for politico, lois romano. the appearance yesterday, as i noted, the question that the student posed to him, what are we to make of his prior writings and the future decision from the high court? >> right. so, i think this is a direct allusion back to his scathing dissent in the 2003 case of lawrence versus texas. >> correct, yes. >> struck down the texas sodomy statute and he said, you know, if we are not allowed to make moral judgments, if the legislature's not allowed to do that, we're on a slippery slope here. there's an easy way to drive a stake in that slippery slope based on the harm principle. you know, we can see that murder harms people. it is not as clear that same-sex marriage will harm anybody. also, there's something interesting where he says if we're deprived of the argument how can we not afford the same-sex couples be allowed to marry? >> it's interesting, a part of the comments he said the constitution is not an organism but a legal text for pete's sake. those are his words and s
joining me now new york university constitutional law professor kenji oshini and reporter for politico, lois romano. the appearance yesterday, as i noted, the question that the student posed to him, what are we to make of his prior writings and the future decision from the high court? >> right. so, i think this is a direct allusion back to his scathing dissent in the 2003 case of lawrence versus texas. >> correct, yes. >> struck down the texas sodomy statute and he said, you...
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look at new york city. new york city in 2010 and 2011 was putting over 50,000 people -- arresting almost 50,000 people each year for just marijuana possession. okay. >> bill: yeah. >> 86% of those arrested were black and latino. >> bill: wow. >> in new york city. right. >> bill: so tell me a little -- tell us a little bit about leap. law enforcement against prohibition. so you are all law enforcement -- current or former law enforcement officers, correct? >> yes. the unique thing about our organization. we're a nonprofit international organization but the unique thing about our organization which is ten years old this year we spend the whole gambit of the law enforcement arena from first contact with police who make the arrest of individuals on the street. then to the prosecutors criminal prosecutors. we have judges, former judges who are members. then into corrections so we have correctional officers and prison wardens who are members. and then parole and probation. we even have federal agents. the entire
look at new york city. new york city in 2010 and 2011 was putting over 50,000 people -- arresting almost 50,000 people each year for just marijuana possession. okay. >> bill: yeah. >> 86% of those arrested were black and latino. >> bill: wow. >> in new york city. right. >> bill: so tell me a little -- tell us a little bit about leap. law enforcement against prohibition. so you are all law enforcement -- current or former law enforcement officers, correct? >>...
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i went with the filmmaker, ken burns, to antietam, new york, washington. people want to talk about these ideas. there is a huge appetite for what is war? how do we understand this? i felt this was an example vacation for me as to what the humanities can be and do. i embrace what you say. i worry about the decline in humanity concentrators even in institutions like ours. there are some places where the humanities are expendable when we have to constrained resources. i think we do ourselves a terrible disservice as a country. it does not focus on how to get where it needs to go but knows where it ought to be going. that is a fundamental obligation. >> a great ending to a great panel. thank you. [applause] i'm now going to invite al hunt to come up and introduces panel. in the last session i said gene sperling would be joining us after this discussion. he was in the midst of the fiscal cliff negotiations, so hopefully he will tell us how he is protecting these important investments. >> next, a conversation about spurring investment in the marketplace. this is
i went with the filmmaker, ken burns, to antietam, new york, washington. people want to talk about these ideas. there is a huge appetite for what is war? how do we understand this? i felt this was an example vacation for me as to what the humanities can be and do. i embrace what you say. i worry about the decline in humanity concentrators even in institutions like ours. there are some places where the humanities are expendable when we have to constrained resources. i think we do ourselves a...
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for example, california and new york or illinois. but that's exactly what these senate rules changes would allow. this isn't just some wild supposition on my part. the majority leader himself said the filibuster -- and i'm quoting here -- "is a unique privilege that serves to aid small states from being trampled by the desires of larger states." he went on to say -- and i'm quoting again -- "it's one of the most sacred rules of the senate." of course that was a few years ago, before he proposed to do the very thing that he is now -- that he has criticized. he now appears ready to undermine the most important rule, not by a two-thirds vote as clearly required by senate rule 22, but by a simple majority fiat. this contradicts long-standing practice and disregards the 67-vote threshold that president lyndon baines johnson said -- quote -- "he preserves indisputably the character of the senate." this is the same so-called nuclear option that democrats previously decried as breaking the rules to change the rules. for example, the senior s
for example, california and new york or illinois. but that's exactly what these senate rules changes would allow. this isn't just some wild supposition on my part. the majority leader himself said the filibuster -- and i'm quoting here -- "is a unique privilege that serves to aid small states from being trampled by the desires of larger states." he went on to say -- and i'm quoting again -- "it's one of the most sacred rules of the senate." of course that was a few years...